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Chicago examiner y-^r " ' l11 -â€” " 1 ~" mtirm in ii ni â– â– " ' " --â€”â€”**â€”â– - : l/j tt the weather f*j tpisn " ___ j7 h'ty cki of co and vlcinity gonerally j i ' r 7t fair thursday ind friday not mi-ch & '" \ l cliel.-lc m icmpei'at_i-e moderate y .-< viv southwest winds becoming variable s vol viii no 182 a m Chicago july 21 1910 14 pages thursday thursday p~**aÃŸ j b_b rn gnwaÃŸ ' 11 cc3l /â– || x set coat piano || twfh bargains in new and second-hand kcmk t i 33 pianos at reasonable terms are offered w j v v a in the daily and sunday } 4 j examiner ulant ms "$ price one cent delivered by carrier 80 cents per month registered in c s patent office rigdon on verge of suicide 6 years ago feared he couldn't se!i same stocks which were at bot tom of recent tragedy shot negro in capital many suits for his property will tangle the estate of â– dead man tha fnlrview wnnder mines of nevada out cf will i tli late charles w rigdon are anted of making millions proved t be his fata hoodoo , three years ago they bronghl biin to the vet^i nf sum iiic in fair i"w nev this nevada scene was alums as tragic es his death although then were no wom en in the immediate scenery kigdon it ieenis bad reached the end nf his re sources so thoroughly had he and the women leeches who surrounded him gone through with his fortune that he bad but 25 cents left some philadelphia capital had prom ised to send to fnivview a large sum of money to take np leases on rigdon's won der property the day on which the op tlons were to be taken up arrived standing on a dump heap of his mine rigdon pulled out bis last quarter and looked at it then lie drew a loaded re tolvcr and examined it if those philadelphia people don't ar rtve by night and close this deal he said to a friend i'll kill myself fo they've tripped me to a last measly ip:a ft or moneyed men arrive the philadelphians arrived and rigdon took a respite from self-inflicted death while his wonder stock grew in value un der philadelphia manipulation v it was stock in this same wonder group tnn t brought about the final break between the eccentric old miner and mrs auiy toung it was because mrs young had bought ln the wonder stock he had sacrificed and placed 'â– ' in the ramf ot her r.-s.cr miss peresa i lou.ieni that rigdon shot her after a struggle in the office of john c fetzer in the bedford building lust friday afternoon and then sent a ballet into his own braiu this same fail-view wonder st â€” * now promises to become the bone of contention *_ a three-cornered legal struggle for final possession mrs annie rigdon the widow mrs amy toung the old mans companion and jay a rigdon the young assistant cashier of the hibernian banking associa tion will soon he tangled in suits and counter suits many suits threatened here are some of the prospective suits of k-bich the examiner learned yesterday mrs anna 11 rigdon widow vs mrs amy young for the return of 00,000 worth of wonder and other nevada mining stocks which she seemed from rigdon or their proceeds iu case the stock bas been sold mrs auna 11 rigdon vs j-y a rigdon and johu c fetzer for an accounting of the affairs of ('. w rigdon and for the re turn to the estate of many shares of min ing stock said to be in their possession mrs anna h rigdon vs barney schef tels & co and tv.e firm's Chicago man ager harry hedrn-k for an accounting of the stock transactions of mrs amy young and her half sister mi<s teresa tronnem mrs amy young vs john c fetzer and jay a rigdon for many shares of mining stock purchased for her but still remain ing in the name of rigdon young rigdon to sue woman jay a rigdon vs mrs amy young for the return of stocks and bonds securtld from his father under alleged false pre tences and tricks the flrst move in this civil war was taken yesterday wheu attorney m h sul livan notified various eastern bankers and stock brokerage concerns that the transfer of any stock standing in rigdon's name will he at their own peril advices from philadelphia state that such a notice has been served on the fourth street national bauk of philadelphia which is believed to lie the registering agency of the wonder stock the notice of warning in mrs rigdon's behalf reads in part as follows i am informed that you are the register ing agent for the stock of a mining com pany known as the nevada wonder mine or the wonder mine nnd this is to notifj you tbat c w rigdon a stockholder ir pam mine died her last friday said to b a suicide you are further notified thai any transfer of stock standing in his nnm is done at your peril should any oue present such certificate of stock for transfer i shall appreciate it i you will advise me at once by wire wi take these steps because we are reliably iu formed that stock belonging to him is no among his effects and is as yet unaccouutei for ' suicide verdict expected after examining privately several wil nesses and thoroughly going over the case coroner hoffman and police inspecto i.nvin decided to abandon all theories tha rigdon was murdered or shot accidentall in a struggle over a revolver it was sai that suicide will undoubtedly he the verdlr di ife e coroner's .' ry nt the inquest whir wfll be held us - ns mrs amy youug i . -Â„ leave .â€¢* ake's hospital youne ' greatly startled ye=te Â„. â– â– , e learned thai the ei heiress of 2,000,030 may be made to work lawyers for mrs julia morris curtiss suggest her daughter earn own iving ni'w yi.ilik july 20 hilda charlotte edgeitou morris eighteen-year d daugh ter of mrs julia walt morns curtiss who is worth over 6,000,000 may have to earn hcr own living if the suggestion by lawyers in charge if her mother's estate prevails mis curtiss checkbook lias been for years under control nf conservators ap pointee t take care of mrs curtiss cash because she has been adjudged incompetent on account of lutenipei to habits hilda who will some day be wortli a least 000,600 had been living at a pri vate boarding school the school bills amounting to about 2,000 ire unpaid and the lincoln trust company general guardian for hilda asked the supreme court to get some money in settle the account hilda had to leave the school wiuiain klein was appointed referee to decide how much money mrs curtiss has available am what was best for the girl s welfare he reported to-day to the su preme court that the suggestion that hilda earn iicr own living was impractical and impossible because of her physical condi tinn he suggested that . mrs curtiss yacht be sold or money from the sale of property be used to pay the bills gov carroll is indicted jury holds lowan on i lb-el cliarale of man he onsicil des moines la july 21 governor b f carroll was to-day indicted on the charge of criminal libel preferred against biin by john cownie former member of the state board of control whom the governor forced to resign under charges of misconduct ' preferred by girl inmates of the girls reform school at mitchellvilie after bis resignation cownie declared foe was forced to resign without justifiable cause and governor carl-oil issued a pub lished statement in which he set forth the claim that cownie had sold diseased cattle belonging to the state and had conducted himself unbecomingly among the girl in mates at mitchellvilie because governor carroll is a stalwart and this an insurgent community it is rumored that there ls some politics bnck of the indictment the governor was released on his own recog nizance and will demand a trial before the november election j b gridley dies on car broker stricken vi i'h heart disease on way to south side home john b gridley fifty years old 4801 langley avenue a broker with offices in the rookery building died of heart dis ease on a north state street car at state and rut-olph streets last night mr gridley a resident of Chicago thirty years was on bis way to his home after visiting friends on the north side con ductor charles williams saw him reel and fall to the floor when he reached his side he was dead mr gridley had been suffering from heart disease for some time and was seized with an at tack a month ago nt bis home police took the body to undertaking rooms at 5 randolph street a widow and two children arthur h and george if grid ley survive edith deacon sets date vacation of kellsion worries e â– - port society wedding sept 15 newport r 1 july 20 â€” september lo is the date set for the marriage of miss edith deacon and george lee pea body of boston at snug harbor the new port residence of mrs charles 11 baldwin the bride-to-be's grandmother miss deacon is a devout member of st mary's catholic church of newport and her fiance is a unitarian as well as a divorced man the question of who will perform the ceremony is the gossip of the moment here it is reported both in boston and new port that mr peabody was never baptized which leaves the road of the catholic church open for him to enter miss deacon insists on being married in her own church cannon is going fishing speaker looks tired as he jfears home seeks 3o>lioo fan st i.ouis mo july 20 speaker jo seph g cannon arrived here at s:22 this afternoon from his kausas speaking tour and left for his danville 111 home at 8-15 to-night he smiled but was a little weary and the usual long black cigar was conspicuous by its absence i am going to spend my vacation at mackinac he said and get a taste of tlie life i enjoyed as a hoy i am going fishing when a boy i could never get the fish to bite but the mosquitoes were inclined differently i shall return to danville in september to deliver several speeches before the primaries open wants 5,000 from t r preacher start long walk to inter est roosevelt in hospital oyster bay l 1 july 20 a per sistent visitor here to-night is the kev george nathaniel who says be lives in philadelphia he arrived carrying a car pet bag hackmen offered to take him bo sagamore hill three miles away but lie said bc h-rd no money and started to wul but finally gave it up and found shelter in a cheap lodging bouse he will go to see the ex-presi dent to-morrow the bev nathaniel is an archdeacon in the american protestant church and says he lias been collecting funds for a hospital a inl in ni an school at nnzarctli galilee he wants 50,000 from colonel roosevelt 2,100,000i in Chicago says school census ridiculous declares pres j givins of 3,000,000 club who claims 3,200,000 fewer americans marry i race suicide however has ' no hold twenty-seventh ward has most children chicago's pppulation is 2.100.000 accord ing to the school census which was made pnblic yesterday at a meeting of the ; board of education this is an increase of 170,940 in the last two years it is an increase of 100,0:0 since the national census of lslcfc'i which put chi cago's population at 1,698.575 the growth of Chicago has been at the rate of 40,000 a year a number which represents the entire population of a good-sized city every year during the last decade robert c givins president of the 8 000,000 dub declared last night that the school census estimate of chicago's popu lation was absurd claims Chicago has 3,200,000 Chicago has a population of 3,000,000 perhaps 3.200.000 would be even more cor rect exclaimed mr givias more than twelve years ago a school census put chi cago's population at 2,000,000 what's the cause of the falling off the last city directory contains 7so.ooo names and sta tisticians agree that not more than one fourth of all the names are in the direc tory the minors names not being given the poll lists have 420,000 numes and only one ln every seven of the population is a voter such data would put the population at 3,000,000 and over the 3,000,000 club will not pay any attention to this ridiculous census but when the federal count isj made kuown we will have a hot discussion i estimate that the federal census will be about 2,400,000 3.000,000 club census aviators superintendent bodlne says that mr givins and his 3,000,000 club are experts in census aviation optimists may be disappointed said mr bodine but my census was taken on a basis of actual enumeration not hyster ical aviation of the kind at which the 3,000 club members are expert i do i not deal ln airships i made an honest count i believe the federal census will agree with my figures if the city's sub 1 urlbs now so accessible through rapid transit had not drawn so largely from the population Chicago might now be on the j threshold of the 3,000,000 mark other salient features of the school cen 1 sus which superintendent bodlne says jn his report is the most complete conserva tive and accurate ever made in any city are the total minor population of Chicago persons under twenty-one years is 814 113 an increase of 66,7g8 over the school census of 1908 and the largest increase for the last six years no race suicide here number of Chicago babies under four years is 166,503 the largest number ever enumerated of these 81,535 are boys and 84,003 girls x there is no race suicide in Chicago marriage is decreasing among american and if this continues for the next twent i years the future Chicago will be the city of the cerinau the slav end the italian the northwestern portion of the city u ' growiug more rapidly than any other dis trict chicago's growth has been held back by the exodus of tens of thousands of its well-to-do citizens to the suburbs on the north shore and the desplaines and fox river valleys there are fewer babies in the eighteenth ward than in any ward in the city the number being 1,0l32 the second ward comes next in the infant scarcity with 1,246 the twenty-seventh ward heads the list with b,bbs babies the block containing the most children â– is in the sixteenth ward bounded by di vision blackhawk and dickson streets with a juvenile population of 1,126 under the caption agencies destructive of children in Chicago mr bodlne lists 7,155 saloons 963 poolrooms 3ls2 nickel theaters 2co dance halls and 486 disorder ly houses ban chambers novels library trustees also bar stories l>y herriek and wells minneapolis minn july 20 some of robert w chambers books of apollo heroes and venus heroines have been barred from the minneapolis public li brary the ban has also been put on other best sellers including togeth er by robert herriek the lianger mark by chambers has been excluded as being of no interest to the serious and perniciously suggestive to the immature and frivolous the history of roily tono-bungay and ann veronica by the socialistic novelist h g wells were barred as sordid the decameron and rabelais unex purgated remain on the shelves gompers must be tried anjnstment ot labor diapntc will not affect contempt cases washington july 20 the cases of gompers mitchell and morrison respec tively president vice president and secre tary of the american federation of labor now pending before the united states su preme court and as the result of which tlie tliree labor lenders stand in contempt of the supreme court of the district of columbia must run their course before that tribunal the adjustment of the dif ferences between the bucks stove â€” range company of st louis and the federation cannot affect the contempt case stingaree kills boy west palm beach fla july 20 laurence s baker 14-year-old son of a prominent business man of jacksonville was killed to-day by a siiugnree while swimming in lake worth the boy dived from a boat near which a stingaree was lurking as the boy went under the water the stingaree was disturbed and lashed out with its whip-like tall which carried many long spikes one of these spikes pierced the boy's neck severi-ig the jug ular vein young baker rose to the sur face crying for help ar.d died before his comrades could pull him into the boat best man for rival drops dead of grief john tyka aids at wedding of old sweetheart then suf fers heart-break darnced gayly at fete wishes bride aii happiness before leaving body found # later by his mother _ the last act of john tyka's life was to serve as best man when the girl he had loved since they were school children to gether in warsaw poland married an other man after the wedding he went home nnd fell dead iust within his door way at 1422 dixon street a broken heart killed him say his mother and his friends tyka was twenty-one years old the girl he loved and lost and whose loss broke bis heart was miss bertha kowal ski twenty years old of 121g milwaukee avenue yesterday morning she became the bride of john kruppa twenty-three years old 1g49 emma street until three weeks ago there had never been a doubt in john tyka's mind that bertha kowalskl loved yiim as tenderly faithfully and devotedly as he loved her no one else ever car**ied her hooks to school she never accepted candy or ap ples from any other boy and they used to talk as children of the da when both should be grown and they should marry the tyka and kowalskj families left poland together and came to america five years ago in this land of opportunity john tyka felt sure he could provide a cozy home for the only girl he had ever cared even to know but three weeks ago at a dance she met john kruppa and was so captivated hy him that all the dreams the hopes the plans the promises of a lifetime were cast aside when kruppa asked her to be bis wife she joyfully said she would it was arranged that the marriage should be in atlas hall 1416 emma street and that it should he followed by feastlog and dancing the girl who now felt toward john tyka as she might a dear brother asked him if he would not be her bride groom's best man and as it was the last request she ever would make of bim he consented he acted his part bravely smiling be traying not by a glance a tone or a word the pain that he suffered or the grief that was killing him he was one of the gay est among the dancers the one to wish the bride the rosiest happiness all her life the wedding service f"is at 10 o'clock iu the morning at 3 ln the afternoon the best man in the midst of the dnuclng ap proached the bride and said i have a pain in my chest i feelvs o badly i can not stay any longer i'm going home two or three who heard him twitted him deolaring it was hid jilting had mado him ill he left without making a reply at c o'clock his mother left the dance and went home she found his body j-ei within the door a dr r was sum moned heart failure he said after telling the mother her lioy was dead suicide ikory in rawn case gains family insists monon head was slain 1 shots fid si relatives ilk 1 bl heigh search through country for Â«^ the burglar supposed to have committed the deed â€¢ proves entirely fruitless recent scandal in the Illinois central repair contracts recalled in connection with death of railroad magnate suicide or murder which shall be tha last word written ln the story of the tart end that came to the life of ira g rawn president of the monon rai'iroad early yesterday morning at his summer home at winnetka that he fell the victim to the revolver of a housebreaker whom he had surprised forcing the side door of his residence at 1 o'clock ln the morning ls the positive declaration of his family and bis friends in the railroad world and in the xorth shore suburb strength is given this view of the tragedy by the fact that winnetka has for weeks been infested with dar'r.-f burglars and as recently as last monday night lt is claimed an attempt was mad to enter the rawn home against the theory of murder and point ing sharply to the possibility of suicide are several potent facts neighbors disa ree - --" absolutely with the family on the score tbat two shots were dred one by rawn before he succumbed to the bullet that killed him the other by whoever may have confronted him in the shadows of the hall way of his house i at least four persons claim to have beard the commotion attending the shooting and each la positive that bnt one shot wai heard no trace of fugitive not a trace of a fugitive could be found ln the combing of the village and neigh boring towns immediately after the alarm was given and the bpaclous lawns and heavy hedges surrounding the scene of the shooting bear not the slightest evidence of the flight of any lntrodcr back of lt all hovers the recent scandals in the Illinois central railroad's oar le pair derpa ttment scandals involving abont i,000,000 _ m mr rawn ntll late ln 1809 was vica^h president tn charge of operation of the mi *' nols central railroad and ln that capacity wag die official under whose direct s_per vlslon eame the letting of contracts and o k.'lng of expenditures for car repairs and purchase of right of way phls name was frequently mentioned dur ing the investigation into the frauds per petrated by the former officers of the railroad though it was never shown that he had cognizance either direct or lndir rect of any of the p_f-r-_gs of his sob ~ ordlnates when he waa named u president of the monon his friends affected to sea a com plete vindication for him in the tendering of that office suspect another snell ca se the police authorities confronted with the maze of conflicting stories that sur rc_nd thta latest crime mystery are asking themselves lf they are c __**â€¢___ with a second snell mystesy the murder of albert j snell in the parlors of his washington botfl-vard home 1 twenty-two years ago bear a s*rri_l_g re 1 semblance to the violent death met by mr i rawn in almost every essential detail , snell was roused from ma sleep in the dead of night crept down the stairs in h , nlehtrobes armed with are vol r met bis [ unknown assassin in the shadows of the , main floor hall with the parlor door as the . refuge for the intruder and his family nu , swering to the crash of uie plsiol of the assassin came upon him dead . and there is only the story of the never i discovered willie tascott to answer the . question of hw and at whose han4a ha met , his dpath wlnnetkn and the north shore from the i northern limits of Chicago to lake forest teemed with private detectives and volun teer vigilante bands all day yesterday j and of their search came nothing late a , last night ralph g coburn mr itawns , son-in-law after a conference with repre i j sentatives of the pinkerton detective , agency announced that to-day he woum^b . offer a substantial reward for the appre-h hension of his father-in-law's rlayer imi tfl > no sum was a-rree*d upon this decision isfl considered.to indicate the arm belief oflj - the family at least tli t mr rawn me tfl his fate at the hands of an assassin flj no witness to shooting f^j there was absolutely nc witness to the , shooting the one person who can bear out even . __, a degree the murder theory ls mr awn wife of the dead man shew was awakened by *'"' sound of some one at ih^ide uooi^ol the bouse and gave her i g rawn the victim and diagram showing how tragedy is supposed to have occurred the white outline figures show how the shooting oc curred if murder theory is correct and the black figures illustrate the sui cide theory u s guns to guard ships at nicaragua state department expected to take firm stand to-day in reply to captains washington july 20 the state de partment proposes to answer to-morrow ship captains and others who are afraid to enter the ports of blueflelds and greytown iu nicaragua or in other ports because of a declaration by either of the factions that such ports arc blockaded it ls expected that the state department will follow the precedent set by secretary gresham in is when miner bis advice admiral ben ham cleared the way with warships ln the bay of kio janeiro for the entrance of american commercial vessels to the docks of that city the frcuch british italiau and ger man naval commanders present apparently did not know liow to act but admiral benham settled the question a gunboat of the insurgent party at rio janeiro at tempted to stop au american vessel ad miral benham ordered the detroit to pilot the vessel to her dock the detroit meet ing opposition tired on the brazilian gun boat and tiie cargo was landed all the other nations however had pre vious stated that cargoes could be landed from lighters trees sloops barques etc if these . raised the hag of any na tion from which they wanted protection the i'nited states government can pi'.ot any norwegian vessel into bluclields or greytpwu all that will be necessary will be foi the norwegian vessel to ask the protection of tlie i'nited states and put a little i'nited states hag in the bow vessels enter ig the port must however go in at their own risk f l race's condition serious tiie condition of former alderman frank 1 race who is at the garfield park san itarium was declared last night to jje serious physicians say be has slight cbaiice of recovery sees auto kill baby threatens own life mother beholds two-year-old son in arms of cousin hurled to death harry golbus two years old 5739 south halsted street was almost instantly killed last evening at garfield boulevard and south halsted street after he had been knocked from the arms of his cousin josephine nlmz eight by an automobile driven and owned by c j dempsey 2234 west jackson boulevard a collector the nlmz girl was bruised but escaped serious injury because the machine hurled her to one side the girl was carrying her cousin across the street to where the baby's mother was sitting on a lawn when they were struck by the automobile which was reported to be going at twelve miles an hour dempsey was arrested and later released on 510,000 bond he told the police he was unable to avoid running down the children i saw the children but could not stop in time to avoid knocking tbem down he said and both left and right of me were two other automobiles so i could not turn out i did my best to stop but it was use less the distance being too short mrs mollie jollius the mother became frantic when she saw her baby hurt threatened to commit suicide and a patrol man took her home albert w jack dead rochester july 20 albert w ja^k vice president of the star headlight com pany died here this morning aged sixty nine mr jack was well known in chi cago 111 where he was formerly engaged in the railwaj-^upply business 1 _ a c_-hnued on 6th fase 2d column

Chicago examiner y-^r " ' l11 -â€” " 1 ~" mtirm in ii ni â– â– " ' " --â€”â€”**â€”â– - : l/j tt the weather f*j tpisn " ___ j7 h'ty cki of co and vlcinity gonerally j i ' r 7t fair thursday ind friday not mi-ch & '" \ l cliel.-lc m icmpei'at_i-e moderate y .-< viv southwest winds becoming variable s vol viii no 182 a m Chicago july 21 1910 14 pages thursday thursday p~**aÃŸ j b_b rn gnwaÃŸ ' 11 cc3l /â– || x set coat piano || twfh bargains in new and second-hand kcmk t i 33 pianos at reasonable terms are offered w j v v a in the daily and sunday } 4 j examiner ulant ms "$ price one cent delivered by carrier 80 cents per month registered in c s patent office rigdon on verge of suicide 6 years ago feared he couldn't se!i same stocks which were at bot tom of recent tragedy shot negro in capital many suits for his property will tangle the estate of â– dead man tha fnlrview wnnder mines of nevada out cf will i tli late charles w rigdon are anted of making millions proved t be his fata hoodoo , three years ago they bronghl biin to the vet^i nf sum iiic in fair i"w nev this nevada scene was alums as tragic es his death although then were no wom en in the immediate scenery kigdon it ieenis bad reached the end nf his re sources so thoroughly had he and the women leeches who surrounded him gone through with his fortune that he bad but 25 cents left some philadelphia capital had prom ised to send to fnivview a large sum of money to take np leases on rigdon's won der property the day on which the op tlons were to be taken up arrived standing on a dump heap of his mine rigdon pulled out bis last quarter and looked at it then lie drew a loaded re tolvcr and examined it if those philadelphia people don't ar rtve by night and close this deal he said to a friend i'll kill myself fo they've tripped me to a last measly ip:a ft or moneyed men arrive the philadelphians arrived and rigdon took a respite from self-inflicted death while his wonder stock grew in value un der philadelphia manipulation v it was stock in this same wonder group tnn t brought about the final break between the eccentric old miner and mrs auiy toung it was because mrs young had bought ln the wonder stock he had sacrificed and placed 'â– ' in the ramf ot her r.-s.cr miss peresa i lou.ieni that rigdon shot her after a struggle in the office of john c fetzer in the bedford building lust friday afternoon and then sent a ballet into his own braiu this same fail-view wonder st â€” * now promises to become the bone of contention *_ a three-cornered legal struggle for final possession mrs annie rigdon the widow mrs amy toung the old mans companion and jay a rigdon the young assistant cashier of the hibernian banking associa tion will soon he tangled in suits and counter suits many suits threatened here are some of the prospective suits of k-bich the examiner learned yesterday mrs anna 11 rigdon widow vs mrs amy young for the return of 00,000 worth of wonder and other nevada mining stocks which she seemed from rigdon or their proceeds iu case the stock bas been sold mrs auna 11 rigdon vs j-y a rigdon and johu c fetzer for an accounting of the affairs of ('. w rigdon and for the re turn to the estate of many shares of min ing stock said to be in their possession mrs anna h rigdon vs barney schef tels & co and tv.e firm's Chicago man ager harry hedrn-k for an accounting of the stock transactions of mrs amy young and her half sister milioo fan st i.ouis mo july 20 speaker jo seph g cannon arrived here at s:22 this afternoon from his kausas speaking tour and left for his danville 111 home at 8-15 to-night he smiled but was a little weary and the usual long black cigar was conspicuous by its absence i am going to spend my vacation at mackinac he said and get a taste of tlie life i enjoyed as a hoy i am going fishing when a boy i could never get the fish to bite but the mosquitoes were inclined differently i shall return to danville in september to deliver several speeches before the primaries open wants 5,000 from t r preacher start long walk to inter est roosevelt in hospital oyster bay l 1 july 20 a per sistent visitor here to-night is the kev george nathaniel who says be lives in philadelphia he arrived carrying a car pet bag hackmen offered to take him bo sagamore hill three miles away but lie said bc h-rd no money and started to wul but finally gave it up and found shelter in a cheap lodging bouse he will go to see the ex-presi dent to-morrow the bev nathaniel is an archdeacon in the american protestant church and says he lias been collecting funds for a hospital a inl in ni an school at nnzarctli galilee he wants 50,000 from colonel roosevelt 2,100,000i in Chicago says school census ridiculous declares pres j givins of 3,000,000 club who claims 3,200,000 fewer americans marry i race suicide however has ' no hold twenty-seventh ward has most children chicago's pppulation is 2.100.000 accord ing to the school census which was made pnblic yesterday at a meeting of the ; board of education this is an increase of 170,940 in the last two years it is an increase of 100,0:0 since the national census of lslcfc'i which put chi cago's population at 1,698.575 the growth of Chicago has been at the rate of 40,000 a year a number which represents the entire population of a good-sized city every year during the last decade robert c givins president of the 8 000,000 dub declared last night that the school census estimate of chicago's popu lation was absurd claims Chicago has 3,200,000 Chicago has a population of 3,000,000 perhaps 3.200.000 would be even more cor rect exclaimed mr givias more than twelve years ago a school census put chi cago's population at 2,000,000 what's the cause of the falling off the last city directory contains 7so.ooo names and sta tisticians agree that not more than one fourth of all the names are in the direc tory the minors names not being given the poll lists have 420,000 numes and only one ln every seven of the population is a voter such data would put the population at 3,000,000 and over the 3,000,000 club will not pay any attention to this ridiculous census but when the federal count isj made kuown we will have a hot discussion i estimate that the federal census will be about 2,400,000 3.000,000 club census aviators superintendent bodlne says that mr givins and his 3,000,000 club are experts in census aviation optimists may be disappointed said mr bodine but my census was taken on a basis of actual enumeration not hyster ical aviation of the kind at which the 3,000 club members are expert i do i not deal ln airships i made an honest count i believe the federal census will agree with my figures if the city's sub 1 urlbs now so accessible through rapid transit had not drawn so largely from the population Chicago might now be on the j threshold of the 3,000,000 mark other salient features of the school cen 1 sus which superintendent bodlne says jn his report is the most complete conserva tive and accurate ever made in any city are the total minor population of Chicago persons under twenty-one years is 814 113 an increase of 66,7g8 over the school census of 1908 and the largest increase for the last six years no race suicide here number of Chicago babies under four years is 166,503 the largest number ever enumerated of these 81,535 are boys and 84,003 girls x there is no race suicide in Chicago marriage is decreasing among american and if this continues for the next twent i years the future Chicago will be the city of the cerinau the slav end the italian the northwestern portion of the city u ' growiug more rapidly than any other dis trict chicago's growth has been held back by the exodus of tens of thousands of its well-to-do citizens to the suburbs on the north shore and the desplaines and fox river valleys there are fewer babies in the eighteenth ward than in any ward in the city the number being 1,0l32 the second ward comes next in the infant scarcity with 1,246 the twenty-seventh ward heads the list with b,bbs babies the block containing the most children â– is in the sixteenth ward bounded by di vision blackhawk and dickson streets with a juvenile population of 1,126 under the caption agencies destructive of children in Chicago mr bodlne lists 7,155 saloons 963 poolrooms 3ls2 nickel theaters 2co dance halls and 486 disorder ly houses ban chambers novels library trustees also bar stories l>y herriek and wells minneapolis minn july 20 some of robert w chambers books of apollo heroes and venus heroines have been barred from the minneapolis public li brary the ban has also been put on other best sellers including togeth er by robert herriek the lianger mark by chambers has been excluded as being of no interest to the serious and perniciously suggestive to the immature and frivolous the history of roily tono-bungay and ann veronica by the socialistic novelist h g wells were barred as sordid the decameron and rabelais unex purgated remain on the shelves gompers must be tried anjnstment ot labor diapntc will not affect contempt cases washington july 20 the cases of gompers mitchell and morrison respec tively president vice president and secre tary of the american federation of labor now pending before the united states su preme court and as the result of which tlie tliree labor lenders stand in contempt of the supreme court of the district of columbia must run their course before that tribunal the adjustment of the dif ferences between the bucks stove â€” range company of st louis and the federation cannot affect the contempt case stingaree kills boy west palm beach fla july 20 laurence s baker 14-year-old son of a prominent business man of jacksonville was killed to-day by a siiugnree while swimming in lake worth the boy dived from a boat near which a stingaree was lurking as the boy went under the water the stingaree was disturbed and lashed out with its whip-like tall which carried many long spikes one of these spikes pierced the boy's neck severi-ig the jug ular vein young baker rose to the sur face crying for help ar.d died before his comrades could pull him into the boat best man for rival drops dead of grief john tyka aids at wedding of old sweetheart then suf fers heart-break darnced gayly at fete wishes bride aii happiness before leaving body found # later by his mother _ the last act of john tyka's life was to serve as best man when the girl he had loved since they were school children to gether in warsaw poland married an other man after the wedding he went home nnd fell dead iust within his door way at 1422 dixon street a broken heart killed him say his mother and his friends tyka was twenty-one years old the girl he loved and lost and whose loss broke bis heart was miss bertha kowal ski twenty years old of 121g milwaukee avenue yesterday morning she became the bride of john kruppa twenty-three years old 1g49 emma street until three weeks ago there had never been a doubt in john tyka's mind that bertha kowalskl loved yiim as tenderly faithfully and devotedly as he loved her no one else ever car**ied her hooks to school she never accepted candy or ap ples from any other boy and they used to talk as children of the da when both should be grown and they should marry the tyka and kowalskj families left poland together and came to america five years ago in this land of opportunity john tyka felt sure he could provide a cozy home for the only girl he had ever cared even to know but three weeks ago at a dance she met john kruppa and was so captivated hy him that all the dreams the hopes the plans the promises of a lifetime were cast aside when kruppa asked her to be bis wife she joyfully said she would it was arranged that the marriage should be in atlas hall 1416 emma street and that it should he followed by feastlog and dancing the girl who now felt toward john tyka as she might a dear brother asked him if he would not be her bride groom's best man and as it was the last request she ever would make of bim he consented he acted his part bravely smiling be traying not by a glance a tone or a word the pain that he suffered or the grief that was killing him he was one of the gay est among the dancers the one to wish the bride the rosiest happiness all her life the wedding service f"is at 10 o'clock iu the morning at 3 ln the afternoon the best man in the midst of the dnuclng ap proached the bride and said i have a pain in my chest i feelvs o badly i can not stay any longer i'm going home two or three who heard him twitted him deolaring it was hid jilting had mado him ill he left without making a reply at c o'clock his mother left the dance and went home she found his body j-ei within the door a dr r was sum moned heart failure he said after telling the mother her lioy was dead suicide ikory in rawn case gains family insists monon head was slain 1 shots fid si relatives ilk 1 bl heigh search through country for Â«^ the burglar supposed to have committed the deed â€¢ proves entirely fruitless recent scandal in the Illinois central repair contracts recalled in connection with death of railroad magnate suicide or murder which shall be tha last word written ln the story of the tart end that came to the life of ira g rawn president of the monon rai'iroad early yesterday morning at his summer home at winnetka that he fell the victim to the revolver of a housebreaker whom he had surprised forcing the side door of his residence at 1 o'clock ln the morning ls the positive declaration of his family and bis friends in the railroad world and in the xorth shore suburb strength is given this view of the tragedy by the fact that winnetka has for weeks been infested with dar'r.-f burglars and as recently as last monday night lt is claimed an attempt was mad to enter the rawn home against the theory of murder and point ing sharply to the possibility of suicide are several potent facts neighbors disa ree - --" absolutely with the family on the score tbat two shots were dred one by rawn before he succumbed to the bullet that killed him the other by whoever may have confronted him in the shadows of the hall way of his house i at least four persons claim to have beard the commotion attending the shooting and each la positive that bnt one shot wai heard no trace of fugitive not a trace of a fugitive could be found ln the combing of the village and neigh boring towns immediately after the alarm was given and the bpaclous lawns and heavy hedges surrounding the scene of the shooting bear not the slightest evidence of the flight of any lntrodcr back of lt all hovers the recent scandals in the Illinois central railroad's oar le pair derpa ttment scandals involving abont i,000,000 _ m mr rawn ntll late ln 1809 was vica^h president tn charge of operation of the mi *' nols central railroad and ln that capacity wag die official under whose direct s_per vlslon eame the letting of contracts and o k.'lng of expenditures for car repairs and purchase of right of way phls name was frequently mentioned dur ing the investigation into the frauds per petrated by the former officers of the railroad though it was never shown that he had cognizance either direct or lndir rect of any of the p_f-r-_gs of his sob ~ ordlnates when he waa named u president of the monon his friends affected to sea a com plete vindication for him in the tendering of that office suspect another snell ca se the police authorities confronted with the maze of conflicting stories that sur rc_nd thta latest crime mystery are asking themselves lf they are c __**â€¢___ with a second snell mystesy the murder of albert j snell in the parlors of his washington botfl-vard home 1 twenty-two years ago bear a s*rri_l_g re 1 semblance to the violent death met by mr i rawn in almost every essential detail , snell was roused from ma sleep in the dead of night crept down the stairs in h , nlehtrobes armed with are vol r met bis [ unknown assassin in the shadows of the , main floor hall with the parlor door as the . refuge for the intruder and his family nu , swering to the crash of uie plsiol of the assassin came upon him dead . and there is only the story of the never i discovered willie tascott to answer the . question of hw and at whose han4a ha met , his dpath wlnnetkn and the north shore from the i northern limits of Chicago to lake forest teemed with private detectives and volun teer vigilante bands all day yesterday j and of their search came nothing late a , last night ralph g coburn mr itawns , son-in-law after a conference with repre i j sentatives of the pinkerton detective , agency announced that to-day he woum^b . offer a substantial reward for the appre-h hension of his father-in-law's rlayer imi tfl > no sum was a-rree*d upon this decision isfl considered.to indicate the arm belief oflj - the family at least tli t mr rawn me tfl his fate at the hands of an assassin flj no witness to shooting f^j there was absolutely nc witness to the , shooting the one person who can bear out even . __, a degree the murder theory ls mr awn wife of the dead man shew was awakened by *'"' sound of some one at ih^ide uooi^ol the bouse and gave her i g rawn the victim and diagram showing how tragedy is supposed to have occurred the white outline figures show how the shooting oc curred if murder theory is correct and the black figures illustrate the sui cide theory u s guns to guard ships at nicaragua state department expected to take firm stand to-day in reply to captains washington july 20 the state de partment proposes to answer to-morrow ship captains and others who are afraid to enter the ports of blueflelds and greytown iu nicaragua or in other ports because of a declaration by either of the factions that such ports arc blockaded it ls expected that the state department will follow the precedent set by secretary gresham in is when miner bis advice admiral ben ham cleared the way with warships ln the bay of kio janeiro for the entrance of american commercial vessels to the docks of that city the frcuch british italiau and ger man naval commanders present apparently did not know liow to act but admiral benham settled the question a gunboat of the insurgent party at rio janeiro at tempted to stop au american vessel ad miral benham ordered the detroit to pilot the vessel to her dock the detroit meet ing opposition tired on the brazilian gun boat and tiie cargo was landed all the other nations however had pre vious stated that cargoes could be landed from lighters trees sloops barques etc if these . raised the hag of any na tion from which they wanted protection the i'nited states government can pi'.ot any norwegian vessel into bluclields or greytpwu all that will be necessary will be foi the norwegian vessel to ask the protection of tlie i'nited states and put a little i'nited states hag in the bow vessels enter ig the port must however go in at their own risk f l race's condition serious tiie condition of former alderman frank 1 race who is at the garfield park san itarium was declared last night to jje serious physicians say be has slight cbaiice of recovery sees auto kill baby threatens own life mother beholds two-year-old son in arms of cousin hurled to death harry golbus two years old 5739 south halsted street was almost instantly killed last evening at garfield boulevard and south halsted street after he had been knocked from the arms of his cousin josephine nlmz eight by an automobile driven and owned by c j dempsey 2234 west jackson boulevard a collector the nlmz girl was bruised but escaped serious injury because the machine hurled her to one side the girl was carrying her cousin across the street to where the baby's mother was sitting on a lawn when they were struck by the automobile which was reported to be going at twelve miles an hour dempsey was arrested and later released on 510,000 bond he told the police he was unable to avoid running down the children i saw the children but could not stop in time to avoid knocking tbem down he said and both left and right of me were two other automobiles so i could not turn out i did my best to stop but it was use less the distance being too short mrs mollie jollius the mother became frantic when she saw her baby hurt threatened to commit suicide and a patrol man took her home albert w jack dead rochester july 20 albert w ja^k vice president of the star headlight com pany died here this morning aged sixty nine mr jack was well known in chi cago 111 where he was formerly engaged in the railwaj-^upply business 1 _ a c_-hnued on 6th fase 2d column